NVIDIA GTX 690 Official Launch "Performance Perfected"

[jayse]

I understand dragomirc has started a previous thread speculating over this but i thought i'd make a new thread, feel free to remove this if need be.

Official Keynote: http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/art...ticle-keynote/
Anandtech Article: http://www.anandtech.com/show/5795/n...nching-may-3rd
HardOCP Article: http://www.hardocp.com/article/2012/...ion_inside_out (powerarmour)

I wonder if i'll have to upgrade my PSU for this...

[scottz63]

$999.00 Holy......!!!

[red_dog007]

That is lame. 100% increase in price over the 680. Don't they usually have a little discount buying two?


Hmmm... May 3rd. Sounds almost like paper. The should use those chips to satisfy 680 demand over here in America.

[Gordo]

On one of those links they speculated much the same thing, a few chips used in 690s for a limited market but most being used for trying to meet the demand for 680s.

[Ruzhyo]

Ugh, and with the availability you probably won't find one for under $1200.

I think they should have just put those GK104's into GTX 680's, personally.

[RealTime]

Tremendous achievement, technologically.

Would have been a runaway success had it not been for the dismal yields.

[Alvie1981]

Tremendous achievement, technologically.

Would have been a runaway success had it not been for the dismal yields.

Dual GPU cards are never a success, they are bragging rights in the performance crown and and nothing more.

[powerarmour]

GeForce GTX 690 - Perfection Inside and Out :-

Can you imagine a video card without any flimsy plastic parts? Now you can because the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 will not be composed of any cheap plastics. A heavy duty dual vapor chamber cooling system relying on heavily nickel plated finstacks will sweat what little heat these GPUs pump out. A cast aluminum frame with trivalent chromium plating gives the card a unique look and tremendous rigidity. An injection molded magnesium fan housing adds to the formidable stiffness of the card. A brand new thixomolding process was used to get the required part precision.

The fan housing is made from injection molded magnesium alloy. Magnesium alloys are used throughout the automotive and aerospace industry (including the engines of the Bugatti Veyron and F-22 Raptor) for their light weight, heat dissipation and acoustic dampening properties - which is the same reason we use it in the GTX 690.

NVIDIA tells us the sound profile of the GeForce GTX 690 will be 36db at idle and a mere 46db under full gaming load.

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2012/...ion_inside_out

Blimey, that is one impressive card by the sounds of it!

[dragomirc]

SpecsCUDA Cores 3072
Base Clock 915 MHz
Boost Clock 1019 MHz
Memory Configuration 4GB / 512-bit GDDR5
Memory Speed 6.0 Gbps
Power Connectors 8-pin + 8-pin
TDP 300W
Outputs 3x DL-DVI
Mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Bus Interface PCI Express 3.0


Some Nvidia benchmarks


Scaling looks gret

[Shoresy]

I probably miss read something but Metro 2033 on single card says just over 60fps but in sli 56fps on Nvidia's site?